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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:48:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021114154809.D20258@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021114203035.GF22031@holomorphy.com>; from wli@holomorphy.com on Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:30:35PM -0800

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:30:35PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> The main reason I haven't considered doing this is because they already
> got in and there appears to be a user (Oracle/IA64).

Not in shipping code.  Certainly no vendor kernels that I am aware of 
have shipped these syscalls yet either, as nearly all of the developers 
find them revolting.  Not to mention that the code cleanups and bugfixes 
are still ongoing.

		-ben

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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:48:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021114154809.D20258@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021114203035.GF22031@holomorphy.com>; from wli@holomorphy.com on Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:30:35PM -0800

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:30:35PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> The main reason I haven't considered doing this is because they already
> got in and there appears to be a user (Oracle/IA64).

Not in shipping code.  Certainly no vendor kernels that I am aware of 
have shipped these syscalls yet either, as nearly all of the developers 
find them revolting.  Not to mention that the code cleanups and bugfixes 
are still ongoing.

		-ben
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-14 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-13 23:45 [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-13 23:45 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14  0:42 ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-14  0:42   ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-14  8:52   ` dada1
2002-11-14  8:52     ` dada1
2002-11-14 14:13     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-14 14:13       ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]       ` <ugel9oa vk4.fsf@panda.mostang.com>
2002-11-14 15:13       ` dada1
2002-11-14 15:13         ` dada1
2002-11-14 15:31         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 15:31           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 15:38           ` dada1
2002-11-14 15:38             ` dada1
2002-11-14 20:11           ` Rohit Seth
2002-11-14 20:11             ` Rohit Seth
2002-11-14 20:36             ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 20:36               ` William Lee Irwin III
     [not found]           ` <3DD3FED2.2010901@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
2002-11-14 20:01             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 20:01               ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:06             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:06               ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 17:51       ` David Mosberger-Tang
2002-11-14 18:31         ` Alan Cox
2002-11-14 18:53           ` David Mosberger-Tang
2002-11-14 19:52             ` Alan Cox
2002-11-14 20:14               ` Alan Cox
2002-11-16 18:23                 ` Jan Niehusmann
2002-11-14 20:34         ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 21:31           ` David Mosberger-Tang
2002-11-14 21:38             ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 21:46               ` David Mosberger-Tang
2002-11-14 19:28   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14 20:15     ` Alan Cox
2002-11-16 18:00     ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-16 18:15       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-14 20:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 20:30   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 20:48   ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-11-14 20:48     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:02     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 21:02       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 21:11       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:11         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:31         ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 21:31           ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 21:40         ` Rohit Seth
2002-11-14 21:40           ` Rohit Seth
2002-11-14 21:59           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:59             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:06   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:06     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:06   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:06     ` Benjamin LaHaise
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-14 22:12 Seth, Rohit
2002-11-14 22:12 ` Seth, Rohit

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